Have fun with your trains
QUOTE: Originally posted by geoeisele Can't remember the title, but Gene Hackman was in a pretty good thriller with a chase scene on the roof of a streamliner in the mountains. Very improbable but entertaining, especially when they went through a tunnel near the end.
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
QUOTE: Originally posted by Roadtrp Well, I must be out to lunch, because no one has mentioned my favorites. 1) White Christmas. Best dining car scene ever. 2) Murder on the Orient Express. Many stars and a train. What could be better? 3) Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train. Trains are just involved briefly, but are a MAJOR component of the plot. A true Masterpiece.
QUOTE: Originally posted by KenLarsen I can't remember the title, but it was one of those made-for-TV movies (filmed in the early 1970's) about a special D&RGW 'ski excursion' train, pulled by a pair of GP30s, that loses its brakes during its return trip down the slopes. Can't even remember the entire plot (whether the brakes failed by accident or sabotage), but some helper units raced up behind the runaway train, coupled to it, and applied full reverse power - stopping the train just in the nick of time, naturally. (If I watched it today, 30 years later, I'd probably laugh thru the whole thing!) If somebody has seen this and knows the title, could you share it with us?
QUOTE: Originally posted by MCNJ WHERE WAS BREAKHEART PASS FILMED? - WHICH RAILROAD
QUOTE: Originally posted by cspmo QUOTE: Originally posted by KenLarsen I can't remember the title, but it was one of those made-for-TV movies (filmed in the early 1970's) about a special D&RGW 'ski excursion' train, pulled by a pair of GP30s, that loses its brakes during its return trip down the slopes. Can't even remember the entire plot (whether the brakes failed by accident or sabotage), but some helper units raced up behind the runaway train, coupled to it, and applied full reverse power - stopping the train just in the nick of time, naturally. (If I watched it today, 30 years later, I'd probably laugh thru the whole thing!) If somebody has seen this and knows the title, could you share it with us? Here is a link to info. of this movie. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070615/
QUOTE: Originally posted by foamer13 What's your favorite? My personal choices are "The Emperor of the North Pole" with Lee Marvin as #1 hobo, battling Ernest Borgnine, bad-*** freght conductor, and "The Train", with Burt Lancaster,saving French art from the retreating ***.
The best is "Atomic Train". It's even on youtube!! Also, "Emporer of the North" is good.
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
gvdoblerKen Larsen That's the one I remember, but can't think of the name. Ben Johnson was the chase engineer. I've never seen the movie again on TV or video rentals. Jon - Las Vegas
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070615/
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_ALEdDUB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
http://s73.photobucket.com/user/steemtrayn/media/MovingcoalontheDCM.mp4.html?sort=3&o=27
I'm partial to the Steven Segal flick (name escapes me at the moment) where he's a navy cook who's neice is kidnapped by terrorists on a train. They, of course, are using the train as a base from which to destroy the world with some sort of U.S. defense sattelite. He, of course, foils the bad guys, saves his neice and in the end, totally destroys the train
Jimmy
ROUTE ROCK!
Ahah, we're REVIVED!
Two I've seen since this thread was first started, and must go to the top of my list:
Rene Clair's remarkable LA BATTAILE DU RAIL about the French Resistance sabotaging German rail movements during WWII. Similar to THE TRAIN, but with a more 'documentary' feel. It also contains probably the most SPECTACULAR (real) train wreck ever photographed. It goes on FOREVER! Terrific film, available on DVD. PS: Some of the footage was filmed during the Occupation and inserted into the finished 1945 film. It won the "Palme d'Or" at the Cannes Film Festival in 1946. Extraordinary film.
DANGER LIGHTS. An early sound film made along the Milwaukee Road in Montana. The trains are the star of the film, and if the plot's a little creaky, it has some remarkable train footage of 1930's Milwaukee steam equipment. Really worth seeing at least once.
Tom
Since no one has mentioned either of these, I'll toss into the mix a couple of movies that are not about the trains but have great train "stuff":
1. "The Greatest Show on Earth" circa 1950 with some great up close circus train shots and an obviously fake , but really messy, train wreck. Lions and tigers and bears running around everywhere!
2. The absolutely must-not-miss movie for SP fans--"Bad Day at Black Rock" with Spencer Tracy. The train, in Black Widow paint opens the film at the credits--a screen full of cab and headlight at speed coming right at you across the desert in wide screen. Train only reappears at the end, but the movie in-between is pretty good. Credits are breath-taking.